U.S. futures for the S&P 500 were up 0.8% and futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 0.5%. Changes in futures do not necessarily predict movements after the opening bell.

In Europe, the Stoxx Europe 600 climbed 0.3% in morning trading. Holmen Series B added 6.4% and Kongsberg Gruppen rose 5.2%. On the other hand, argenx dropped 8.6%, and Centrica slipped 6.9%. The FTSE 100 added 0.2%. Other stocks in Europe were up as France's CAC 40 gained 0.5% and Germany's DAX rose 0.7%.

The Wall Street Journal Dollar Index climbed 0.2% to 96.39.

In commodities, Brent crude rose 0.2% to $61.27 a barrel, and WTI crude climbed 0.3% to $58.25 a barrel. The European benchmark price for natural gas, the Dutch futures contract TTF, was flat at 34.53 euros a megawatt hour.

The German 10-year Bund yield held steady at 2.48%, and the yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury climbed by 3 basis points to 4.299% from 4.274%. Bond prices and yields move in opposite directions.

Stocks in Asia were up as Japan's Nikkei 225 index gained 0.4%, and Hong Kong's Hang Seng climbed 0.4%. China's benchmark Shanghai Composite gained 0.3%.


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